Word: stations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about ten years now, a corporation calling itself Grandbanke has been making a display of Geller's tenacity, to its considerable cost. Grandbanke, a partnership among several out-of-towners, wants to take away Geller's license and run the station the way everyone knows a station ought to be run. Gloucester would no longer have to rely on the 40-odd other stations in range to hear the weather, world and local news, what the Dow Jones is up to. It would be blessed with 60-second spots on "Wonderful Cape Ann" and a daily report "For Fishermen Only...
...Bell notes an irony in this: Geller's cause has been represented in Washington by a public interest law group paid for by foundations and corporations considerably more powerful than Grandbanke.) The next round is scheduled for argument in federal court this fall. In the end, Geller believes, the station will...
Otherwise, Geller is relentlessly, almost comically negative. That Sunday, Israel Horovitz, a playwright, is talking his way around Geller's peculiar character, which fascinates him. "We have one radio station," he says. "It could be anything -- it could be an ongoing bingo game. And what it is is music in its highest form. Geller is a dispenser of the sound of angels singing, the voice of Bach, Beethoven, Pachelbel. Whatever set of circumstances in his childhood made him come to sit in a darkened room and be such a misanthrope, there is a side to his soul that dances with...
Informed of this opinion, Geller raises his eyebrows. He continues to sit in the dark, an attending slave to the station or the music, it isn't clear which. His arms are folded across his chest, his shock of gray hair stands up off his scalp, his lower lip is rolled out. "So?" he asks finally. Another long pause. "Does it mean he wants me to drop dead...
...charms, Lucky proved too rambunctious for the presidential mansion and was shipped off to permanent exile last Thanksgiving. After her final flight aboard Air Force One, Lucky stormed down the gangway in full view of TV cameras and, characteristically, relieved herself on the Point Mugu Naval Air Station tarmac...